Lenovo Enterprise Solutions Assigned Patent

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, (Singapore) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park, Singapore, has been assigned a patent (9,910,593) developed by Durham, Pamela C., Apex, NC, Stegner, Eric A., Durham, NC, Tan, Julian Sia Kai, Morrisville, NC, and Townsend, Eric W., Raleigh, NC, for a “configurable storage device and adaptive storage device array.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An array can include a controller and multiple storage devices of a first type. When a storage device of the first type is replaced by a replacement storage device of a second type, and other storage devices of the first type remain in the array, the controller instructs the replacement storage device to configure itself as a storage device of the first type. When the last storage device of the first type in the array is replaced by a replacement storage device of the second type, the controller instructs all the storage devices of the array to configure themselves as storage devices of the second type.”

The patent application was filed on October 14, 2015 (14/883,394).